LF Guild: How To, and How Not To

The main parts of this are something I wrote up for our officers so they had some info on things I checked when receiving an application for our guild. However, for the sake of my blog audience (as small as that might be currently ^.^), I went back and added info for players that are on the other side of the process and applying to a new guild.



As the semi-official 'recruiting officer' for Narrischkeit, I get to see the applications before anyone else, and I'm often the first to respond once I've posted the app in our forum. As such, I've tried to make things easier for me, and created a list of sites that I go through that do most of the work for me =)

These tips are directed towards those applying for semi-casual -> hardcore raiding guilds. If you're applying to a social guild, or just joining a group of friends that you know, then some of this information will not apply to you.

Before filling out any application, read all info about the guild that you can find. Above all, make sure that you have read their policies, raiding schedule, and the steps for application. For example, don't post your application on their Recruiting forum when the directions state to PM it to an officer.

Tuesday Tip

We've all been there... You, or someone else, sends one of your characters a massive amount of mail, and it's going to take hours (okay, maybe not quite) for you to pull it all out of the mailbox. Pages and pages of full mailings, 12 items deep in each... So many clicks!

Want to know a secret? There's a shortcut.

Shift-left click on the box that appears in your basic mail window. When mousing over the box, it tells you how many items are attached to that one mailing. But by shift clicking on the mail, it will automatically pull every item out of that batch (as long as you have bag space) and drop it in your inventory.

This was actually something I didn't know for several years, and only started using it recently when my brother made a comment about me doing mail the long way. =)

Even with only a single item in the mail, this shortcut saves you a click... With a full mail of 12 items, it saves quite a bit more.